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Tim Gorichanaz
Приєднався 7 чер 2006
Professor in Information Science at Drexel University
Teaching courses in user experience, human computer interaction, design
timgorichanaz.com
Teaching courses in user experience, human computer interaction, design
timgorichanaz.com
Toward a Future of Healthy and Sustainable Cities - Panel Discussion
As we emerge from a global health crisis, what is our most hopeful vision for the cities of tomorrow? What technologies and ideas are being developed today to help enable a future of healthy and inclusive urban environments? What are the biggest challenges that lie ahead?
Organized by Speculative Futures Philadelphia and the Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities, this online panel discussion brings together researchers from Drexel University, Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania in a conversation about the future of our cities.
Learn more about:
- Speculative Futures Philadelphia: futuresphl.cc
- The Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities: www.jefferson.edu/institute-for-smart-and-healthy-cities.html
On the panel, you'll hear from:
- Dr. Peng Du, Thomas Jefferson University. His research focuses on net-zero buildings and cities, computational urban design, urban energy modeling, and urban data analytics, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches.
- Dr. Allison Lassiter, University of Pennsylvania. She examines opportunities to use landscape infrastructure and emerging technologies to build resilience and increase adaptive capacity in cities. Her research focuses on urban water management.
- Dr. Frank Lee, Drexel University. He directs the Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel. Among many projects, he has been recently noted for launching SIM-PHL, an urban planning simulator game powered by Philadelphia's open data.
- Dr. Edgar Stach, Thomas Jefferson University. He is director of the Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities at Jefferson. His current research centers on new developments, innovative techniques, and advanced technologies in architecture for advanced energy-efficiency.
The discussion is moderated by Tim Gorichanaz, a faculty member at Drexel University and organizer of Speculative Futures Philadelphia.
00:00 - Introduction to the session
02:12 - Introductions from each panelist
12:00 - How have cities changed in the past few decades?
25:40 - What are the biggest challenges you see for cities in the near future?
34:39 - Smart cities as a response to these challenges
37:16 - What emerging trends do you find most exciting or promising for the future of cities?
47:18 - Do you think building sustainability into our future can come from the federal level or from the city level?
51:35 - What would you suggest for viewers to do? What is the number one thing anyone watching could do to make a difference in the future of cities?
57:35 - Closing thoughts and thanks
Organized by Speculative Futures Philadelphia and the Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities, this online panel discussion brings together researchers from Drexel University, Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania in a conversation about the future of our cities.
Learn more about:
- Speculative Futures Philadelphia: futuresphl.cc
- The Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities: www.jefferson.edu/institute-for-smart-and-healthy-cities.html
On the panel, you'll hear from:
- Dr. Peng Du, Thomas Jefferson University. His research focuses on net-zero buildings and cities, computational urban design, urban energy modeling, and urban data analytics, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches.
- Dr. Allison Lassiter, University of Pennsylvania. She examines opportunities to use landscape infrastructure and emerging technologies to build resilience and increase adaptive capacity in cities. Her research focuses on urban water management.
- Dr. Frank Lee, Drexel University. He directs the Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel. Among many projects, he has been recently noted for launching SIM-PHL, an urban planning simulator game powered by Philadelphia's open data.
- Dr. Edgar Stach, Thomas Jefferson University. He is director of the Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities at Jefferson. His current research centers on new developments, innovative techniques, and advanced technologies in architecture for advanced energy-efficiency.
The discussion is moderated by Tim Gorichanaz, a faculty member at Drexel University and organizer of Speculative Futures Philadelphia.
00:00 - Introduction to the session
02:12 - Introductions from each panelist
12:00 - How have cities changed in the past few decades?
25:40 - What are the biggest challenges you see for cities in the near future?
34:39 - Smart cities as a response to these challenges
37:16 - What emerging trends do you find most exciting or promising for the future of cities?
47:18 - Do you think building sustainability into our future can come from the federal level or from the city level?
51:35 - What would you suggest for viewers to do? What is the number one thing anyone watching could do to make a difference in the future of cities?
57:35 - Closing thoughts and thanks
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How Computers Colonized the Environment - Summary of "The Computer Reaches Out" by Jonathan Grudin
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Here I summarize a key paper for understanding the historical context of research and development in user experience (UX), user interface (UI), and human-computer interaction (HCI). It's "The Computer Reaches Out," by Jonathan Grudin, presented at the CHI conference in 1990. In this paper, Grudin answers the question: Where did the field of user interface research and development come from, and...
Informed Hope: How does information contribute to hope?
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It seems easy these days to feel hopeless. And unfortunately, feeling hopeless tends to only make things worse. So where does hope come from, and how can we get more of it? In particular, is there a role that information plays in helping people become hopeful? If so, that would mean we can leverage web design, social media, information services, etc., to help people build hope. And more hopeful...
Summary of "Empathy and Experience in HCI" by Wright and McCarthy
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In this video, I give a walkthrough of the classic paper in human computer interaction (HCI) by Wright and McCarthy, "Empathy and Experience in HCI." Published in 2008, this paper articulated the concept of empathy as part of user research, which is now a staple across the design world. Read the paper at: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1357054.1357156
How the Intellectually Humble Seek and Use Information - Tim Gorichanaz
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Addressing humanity’s grand challenges requires productive dialogue. One way to improve dialogue is by helping people build skills in dealing with information using an approach rooted in the intellectual virtues. There are a number of intellectual virtues, but a recent line of multidisciplinary research suggests beginning with intellectual humility (IH) as a cornerstone. At heart, IH is being o...
Summary of "A Contextual Approach to Privacy Online," by Helen Nissenbaum
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Helen Nissenbaum says we've been thinking about privacy all wrong. To date, we think of privacy as having individual control over our information, which we offer in a free-market context. Based on this, we've established a "notice and consent" model for how privacy and privacy policy should work. But this has failed, and Nissenbaum thinks it was doomed from the start. Her alternative is to thin...
The Tiger-Makers, a Folktale from South India
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This story reflects on can and should: Just because we can do something, should we? And what value do we put on those who think about such questions? I learned this story from A. K. Ramanujan's "Folktales from India" (Pantheon, 1991)
Silence - Our Most Undervalued Virtue?
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The activists today tell us silence is violence. Donald Trump would wholeheartedly agree. But they’re wrong. Silence is actually a virtue. Silence is an intellectual virtue, one we'd all do well to cultivate more of. Want more silence in your life? I recommend starting with these books: - Silence: In the Age of Noise amzn.to/3889XpL - Digital Minimalism amzn.to/32cYZvp Sources Donald Trump inte...
Summary of "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" by Langdon Winner
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Brief overview and summary of the influential academic article, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" by Langdon Winner, first published in 1980. In the paper, Winner argues that technological artifacts do indeed have political properties: They may inherently require a certain kind of political arrangement, or they may be flexible and allow choice. He gives many examples, a couple of which I discuss in...
My Takeaways from "Rest" by Alex Pang
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"Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less," written by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, came out in 2016, and it only gets more relevant with time. The book challenges our notion that work and rest are opposites, and it also does away with our assumption that if you want to do good work, you need to stop resting. I made this video for my graduate students at Drexel University, and I thought others ...
Information Design in a Pandemic - Clear Communication
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With the novel coronavirus pandemic affecting more and more aspects of our lives, I've been seeing some interesting issues come up related to information design. There have been innumerable efforts from all sorts of designers to contribute to various aspects, and I won't go into a comprehensive list of examples. Here I want to comment on one core principle of information design: clarity. Even t...
In DOCAM's Footsteps
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This video traces the origins and follows the footsteps of the Document Academy (DOCAM). It includes interviews with founders Niels Windfeld Lund and Michael Buckland, as well as Roswitha Skare. The video was created by Sabine Roux and premiered at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Document Academy.
Citing Sources: An Overview for Academic Librarians
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Overview of the fundamentals of citations (bibliographic referencing) for academic librarians. What citations are fundamentally, why we cite, what we cite and how we cite... followed by a concrete example in APA, MLA and Chicago Get slides at www.slideshare.net/TimGorichanaz1/citing-sources-an-overview-for-academic-librarians
The One Thing I Wanted During My First 50-Mile Race
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The One Thing I Wanted During My First 50-Mile Race
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Raynor Rave at Marquette University